LETTER: Senators and congressmen allow abuse of constitutional rights

Published: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 08:23 PM.

You are to be commended for your editorial “Congress gave away its authority.”

The senators and the members of the House are sitting by not only on the issue you discuss but many other violations of the constitutional rights of the Congress. Why would the congressmen and senators in his own party sit by and let him thumb his nose at their power?

Did anyone notice that the president of Egypt was doing the very same thing to his people?

I am nearing 75 years. No one really cares what an old guy has to say. It is like the little red hen says in the children’s story, “Who will help me bake some bread? Not I,” they all said. “We are all too busy with our iPads and cell phones.”

Sad, very sad.

Robert D. Brown Gastonia

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You are to be commended for your editorial “Congress gave away its authority.”

The senators and the members of the House are sitting by not only on the issue you discuss but many other violations of the constitutional rights of the Congress. Why would the congressmen and senators in his own party sit by and let him thumb his nose at their power?

Did anyone notice that the president of Egypt was doing the very same thing to his people?

I am nearing 75 years. No one really cares what an old guy has to say. It is like the little red hen says in the children’s story, “Who will help me bake some bread? Not I,” they all said. “We are all too busy with our iPads and cell phones.”